1,065 Quotes by Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.